Watch: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
"It's like the '2001' of boxes." -Jon Ronson, commenting on one of Kubrick's custom-made boxes
"It's like the '2001' of boxes." -Jon Ronson, commenting on one of Kubrick's custom-made boxes
All about the "patron saint of geeks."
"Maybe the physically impossible promise of 'unlimited breadsticks' haunts my skeptical mind." -Johannes Grenzfurthner
"No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived." -James Randi
"There are only three types of scenes: negotiations, seductions, and fights." -Mike Nichols
To the moon!
A zoom through the universe...and inside ourselves.
Humans have a long history of clever ideas that go horribly wrong.
"My father, you see, interested me in patterns at the very beginning, and then later in things, like we would turn over stones and watch the ants carry the little white babies down deeper into the holes. We would look at worms. We’d go for walks and we’d
Tonight, a PBS documentary explaining much more than Edison's lightbulb.
A series of ordinary days near the South Pole, setting up camp for the "summer."
Paul Erd?s was a mathematician. In addition to authoring significant papers himself, he created a series of Erd?s problems in which he offered (often small) cash prizes for solutions to difficult and/or significant mathematical challenges. He also had a
Image courtesy of Discovery Channel. I'm a big fan of Les Stroud, better known as Survivorman. When his survival show first appeared on Discovery seven years ago, it was a breath of fresh air -- by shooting everything himself (he lugs all the gear with
Cheeky engineer Tim Hunkin (of Secret Life of Machines fame) invented the Autofrisk, a device that gently gropes the user in exchange for a few coins. (In the U.K. apparently one cannot get this experience for free at local airports.) The Autofrisk is o
Matt Groening created "The Simpsons," and as we all know, Homer Simpson is the patriarch of the family. Well, Homer was the name of Matt's dad too...but he wasn't a doofus. The late Homer Groening was a documentary filmmaker, a WWII pilot, and a writer,